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This T-shirt created from an original painting by Mohammad Sami 2010
While wars for whatever reason break, leave their negative impact on the relationships existing among peoples and nations as well as on individuals and groups, it has been found that peace, which from a historical point of view is difficult to isolate from the expansionism or aggression, contribute to the establishment of relationships and ties and alien prospects that in turn serve as the beginning of times during which humans do not only turn into victims, but also to aesthetic symbols that reverse the scene of violence and hatred into sorts of constructive dialogues and mutual benefits as long as the destiny of Man does not often extend beyond the time for completion of their existence.
Recently, and for the first time, the American Company for Fashion and Arts, has been going through a unique experience of art prints of paintings and designs made by a young Iraqi artist called Mohammed Sami living in Sweden away from home. His stands have previously drawn attention in his country as well as in a number of Arab countries. stated that the company is seeking to present art as a humanitarian message intended to all peoples, especially in view of the fact that the company has chosen the experiences of an artist who has Arab and Islamic origins and not as rumored through guided and programmed publicity that portrays him as a terrorist or as an advocate of violence.
However, the American Fashion Company project, commissioned the artist Mohammad Sami to bring in his drawings for contemporary t-shirt designs, where the artist does not borrow European symbols and forms but creates themes that are characterized by their Eastern aesthetic style through modern tempering of the elements of contemporary art that instead of those themes derived only from the Arab environment and Eastern cultures.
Mohammed Sami, whose soul is inhabited by Mesopotamian times and Eastern Art culture, chose long time ago to address the issues of time-place to express a message of anti-violence, badness, and ill-being where he kept on changing forms of plants, animals, and Man to vocabulary and terms that shape and outline his address to an environmental art through the formulation of a world fed by means of dialogue and knowledge and through codes that still possess visual, and aesthetic meaning just like horses reviewing their long history with their human partner.
It is true that the concept of art, which the noted German philosopher Hegel pointed to its death as it abandoned the spiritual side, when integrated within the dynamism of life as well as within the concept of the most huddled things, namely fashion, it contributes to building a culture of the visual that removes the borders and shortens the distances between continents and hearts in order to formulate a language that extinguishes the roaring weapons, dusts their ashes, and whatever destruction they leave behind. If the weapon trade projects fuel wars and feed the deep-rooted tendency of aggression in human beings, then peace projects and the exchange of aesthetic symbols used in everyday life could potentially reverse the equation and play a leading role in reinforcing civility and building relations, no matter how that role seems to be small or minute, also it may become an alternative to the trade in destructive goods and death.
Although this mention is not devoid of its special praise for this company, however; it does not overlook the fact that this company is a role model for the exploitation of creative talents, specifically the talent of the Iraqi artist Mohammad Sami, in the promotion of communication and relations based on acquaintance and integration among the peoples of our planet which is loaded with temptation and destruction dust. This allows importers working in the Arab world and the Eastern markets in general as well as those working in other countries to make t-shirts as related to body, sight, and everyday life, the subject of a show of artistic and aesthetic accomplishment and its position in building of a culture that violence cannot destroy; when art becomes a transparent message in which neither the identity of the creator nor his/her vision of a world free from Adil Kamil |
